I learned you can edit .bashrc (in your home dir) and update the alias for ls to include what I like. It has saved me lots of keystrokes. Mine is ls -lha in addition to whatever color coding stuff is there by default.
Aha. Well, I guess I’m not the target audience because I can’t be bothered to go through the installation steps. It’s not in the LMDE repository, but I wish it were!
I learned you can edit
.bashrc
(in your home dir) and update the alias for ls to include what I like. It has saved me lots of keystrokes. Mine isls -lha
in addition to whatever color coding stuff is there by default.You might like
eza
even more!You might like lsd even more than that!
Hmm, that’s not working for me. You mean use those as options? ‘ls -eza’?
No, it’s like an ls replacement: https://github.com/eza-community/eza
Aha. Well, I guess I’m not the target audience because I can’t be bothered to go through the installation steps. It’s not in the LMDE repository, but I wish it were!
It’s pretty easy. You either get it from Cargo (the Rust package manager) or add a custom repo to apt.
Cargo is the easier and safer option:
curl --proto '=https' --tlsv1.2 -sSf https://sh.rustup.rs | sh && cargo install eza
Custom apt repo:
sudo apt update sudo apt install -y gpg sudo mkdir -p /etc/apt/keyrings wget -qO- https://raw.githubusercontent.com/eza-community/eza/main/deb.asc | sudo gpg --dearmor -o /etc/apt/keyrings/gierens.gpg echo "deb [signed-by=/etc/apt/keyrings/gierens.gpg] http://deb.gierens.de stable main" | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/gierens.list sudo chmod 644 /etc/apt/keyrings/gierens.gpg /etc/apt/sources.list.d/gierens.list sudo apt update sudo apt install -y eza
In my opinion though, you should also try lsd. It’s even better than eza. You can also get it from Cargo, just a simple
cargo install lsd
.No,
eza
is one of those modern Rust replacement programs. It replacesls
.There’s a whole bunch of cool modern replacements. Here’s a handy list: altbox.dev
I personally use
bat
andrg
all the time, and find them much more suitable for everyday tasks.Edit: And to clarify, I didn’t create either list, they’re just ones I’d bookmarked at some point.
The mobile site doesn’t have the list. I was so confused.
Ew, sorry. This list is similar and more accessible:
https://github.com/ibraheemdev/modern-unix
Even better than
rg
isrga
. Indeed, you have a fine list.A lot of distros include a .bashrc with common
ls
aliases commented out, just waiting for you to activate them if you like.